Sentence examples for pertinent inquiry from inspiring English sources

Rule 702's "helpfulness" standard requires a valid scientific connection to the pertinent inquiry as a precondition to admissibility.

On February 18th, investors at last got an answer, as well as some replies to other pertinent inquiries about the putative benefits of the banks' merger.

Excellent, pertinent question.

It was a pertinent question.

Yes, a pertinent question.

For such refusal, he was convicted of a violation of 2 U.S.C. § 192 which makes it a misdemeanor for any person summoned as a witness by either House of Congress or a committee thereof to refuse to answer any question pertinent to the question under inquiry.

The contempt must be deliberate and intentional, and the question addressed to the witness must be pertinent to the inquiry authorized by Congress.

Interactions with people who may in some way figure into an investigation — regardless of what may be discussed — could be pertinent to an inquiry and later serve as evidence.

One of the issues under investigation by Scotland Yard is whether any documents or e-mails pertinent to the inquiry were deleted or destroyed as part of a cover-up.

But petitioner then and there willfully refused to answer each of the questions so propounded, all of which were pertinent to the inquiry then and there being made by the said committee under the resolutions aforesaid.

Chapman appeared before the committee in response to a subpoena, but refused to answer questions pertinent to the inquiry, and was indicted and convicted under the act of 1857 for his refusal.